My virtual people Blog
21 Jan 2017
Why not to hire Freelancers?
Chances are
most businesses now days have used a freelancer at some point, some with more success
than others. As I mentioned in my previous article, with the likes of upwork
and freelancer websites, it is really quite easy to hire a freelancer.
Businesses now have a better alternative to hiring freelancers. I call it Virtual Employees. Hiring Virtual Employees, solves all the challenges you will face when working with freelancer’s.
You get the cost saving and flexibility of working with a freelancer, as well as the stability of working with a trusted and stable company, AND the virtual employees work exclusively for you.
A virtual employee from myvirtualpeople.com requires only £2.99 per hour ($4.49 USD), whether you need them for simple work like data entry, or more sophisticated roles customer service or web development.
Virtual Employees is the perfect solution to reducing staffing costs without the risks of working with multiple freelancers, which is why some 144 companies have outsourced work to virtual employees with MyVirtualPeople.com.
Technically you could create your own virtual back office with dedicated virtual employees that work for you. Perhaps this is the reason why large companies outsource to dedicated teams rather than having fleets of freelancers? Something to think about…
However
although it may be easy to find freelancers, getting the right person is quite
tough. Having to sift through tonnes of proposals – mostly from people who are
unsuitable!
Unfortunately
I have found the quality of these websites to be deteriorating very fast. And it
is simply because everyone and anyone that has an internet connection have signed
up to these portals. As a result you have Jon Doe in UK who charges an hourly
rate of £30 p/hr, and for the same work or role, you have Sanjay Kapoor in
India who charges £4 p/hr.
On the
outset it seems like Sanjay Kapoor is a more viable option, if he can do the same
work at the fraction of the cost of Jon Doe, then why not? But my years of experience
in working with offshore employees tells me the quality of work will not
necessarily be the same or equal. There is always some give and take, which isn’t
necessarily bad, but having the right expectation is important.
I have been
a freelancer at some point in my past, so this article has nothing against freelancers,
I believe everyone deserves the opportunity to earn for themselves, but although
freelancers do offer benefits, with that comes many risks as well – in particular
offshore freelancers.
- What would happen if your freelancer decided to suddenly drop your project? Would that leave you in a difficult position?
- Will a freelancer really give you his or her 100% effort whilst working with multiple other clients at the same time?
- How can you be sure they aren’t outsourcing the work further, thus causing a further deterioration in the quality of the output?
- What happens when something goes wrong with the work your freelancer does? Who do you turn to? Do they have a company or manager behind them who can get involved?
Businesses now have a better alternative to hiring freelancers. I call it Virtual Employees. Hiring Virtual Employees, solves all the challenges you will face when working with freelancer’s.
You get the cost saving and flexibility of working with a freelancer, as well as the stability of working with a trusted and stable company, AND the virtual employees work exclusively for you.
The solution is to hire
Virtual Employees from an agency
Virtual Employees from an agency
A virtual employee from myvirtualpeople.com requires only £2.99 per hour ($4.49 USD), whether you need them for simple work like data entry, or more sophisticated roles customer service or web development.
Your
virtual employees become a part of your team and work only for you during your
chosen work hours.
Moreover,
by working with virtual employees, which you can hire when you want, and fire
when you want, you also save your business from costs such as:
- No employee tax to pay
- No national insurance contributions
to pay
- No additional infrastructure costs
- No extra office space/desk/computing
needed
- And much more…
Virtual Employees is the perfect solution to reducing staffing costs without the risks of working with multiple freelancers, which is why some 144 companies have outsourced work to virtual employees with MyVirtualPeople.com.
Virtual Employees: Tim, Yasmin, Keith, Natalie
Technically you could create your own virtual back office with dedicated virtual employees that work for you. Perhaps this is the reason why large companies outsource to dedicated teams rather than having fleets of freelancers? Something to think about…
I know
there are many brilliant freelancers out there, so please don’t get me wrong, I
am simply showing a different, cost-effective way of handling staffing for companies
and business owners.
I am sure
everyone has their own opinion on this, go ahead and let me know your thoughts.
And if you want to learn more about virtual employees do feel free to email me
directly on rob@myvirtualpeople.com.
Thanks for
reading, look forward to hearing from you all.
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